(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Josh Hawley's manliness is based on having Yakety Sax [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2022-07-22 A manly man bears troubles without complaining. No safe spaces for him, no new pronouns, no government programs, no personal accusations either launched or answered, no mentors, no assurances, no therapy, no wellness, no correctness. He doesn’t notice microaggressions. And he has no shame or apology for failing in the daily performances of dutiful submission, and he doesn’t much care for the more sensitive male who does. Not concerned for himself, he can, however, complain of the treatment accorded to his kind. This is what Senator Hawley has done, with some effect, in a recent (October 31) and notable speech on the “deconstruction of men.” He points to the plight of unemployed men transformed from husbands and fathers into mere consumers and given to “idleness, and pornography, and video games.” They suffer not so much as victims of angry women or universal, impersonal causes as from loss of responsibility, from loss of employment as men. Their sex is said to be either a fanciful construction with no substantial meaning, or if it has a meaning, it is one that misleads men into toxic misadventures of harmful violence. The video games they love seem to show what they really want to do. The deconstruction of men is the work of the Left, Senator Hawley maintains. He traces the thought behind it to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and back to Karl Marx, and he singles out Herbert Marcuse, an intellectual hero of the late Sixties. Marcuse’s name might reasonably have been left to rest peacefully in oblivion, where it belongs. But it’s true that his book Eros and Civilization (1955) had a vogue, by combining Marx and Freud in a very strange way. Marx’s revolutionary utopia of freedom was plucked from its support in historical, economic materialism and spliced with the sexual liberation that Freud thought impossible. The result was the slogan to “make love, not war,” meaning having sex without restraint, safely at home, rather than fight for one’s country in the Vietnam War. Marcuse’s ignoble advice was conveyed with the Germanic jargon of the Frankfurt School, and Senator Hawley is probably right to say that it offered to many young men a compelling, though barely readable, alternative to manly virtue. Whether they read of it in his book is doubtful, but doctrines good and bad have a way of trickling down from their original, most remote expression. www.nationalreview.com/... x BRET BAIER: I want to pin you down on what you're trying to do. Are you trying to say that Trump will be president after January 20? JOSH HAWLEY: Well, that depends on what happens on Wednesday BAIER: No it doesn't (Trump in fact lost an election!) pic.twitter.com/vsO2JyRJuk — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2021 x Looks to me like Josh Hawley finally got his "proud cut" and is now officially a "proud boy." (google it) — Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 22, 2022 x 2/ Hawley's ties to Peter Thiel date back to early 2000s [Stanford class of 2002]. See downthread for reminder of Hawley's ties to Leonard Leo, Robert Mercer, David McIntosh [Club For Growth president] which date back to at least 2016. Mar 7, 2021:https://t.co/H8mATcN794 — Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) July 22, 2022 [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/22/2111951/-Josh-Hawley-s-manliness-is-based-on-having-Yakety-Sax Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/